![]() I just checked my subscriptions and wow, I’ve been passively wasting a bunch of money.” His comment was “I’d love it if iOS did something like this. I liked this suggestion on Twitter from Trevor Phillippi (who is a product designer at Facebook): There are already good ideas about how this should be tackled. This is bad in all sorts of ways, but it’s indicative of how subscriptions have sneaked up on Apple almost without it realising – even though adding subscriptions to apps was A Big Thing, back in 2011, and then again in 2016 when Apple revised the terms to make it easier to make money from them. Your subscriptions are really hard to find. Nor do my subscriptions to Apple Music and iTunes Match show up in the settings for Music. Nobody’s going to come across that screen by accident it’s quite possible that you wouldn’t come across it even if you were searching for “Subscriptions”, because a search in the Settings doesn’t show it up. Now, this will probably strike you as pretty complex. It won’t tell you when you signed up, nor how much you’ve spent on it – both pieces of data that arguably would help in tracking back on scams – but at least you can stop it. ![]() But if there is something there you don’t like or don’t recognise, then press on that and it will take you to a page which will allow you to cancel the subscription immediately. Hmm, looks like I don’t have any dodgy subscriptions that I ought to be worried about. Press that.Ĭongratulations! You’ve beaten the boss level and your prize is to see what you’re subscribed to. OK, we’re nearly there! Now you want to choose “View Apple ID” from the menu below:Īnd now there’s yet another page: you want to go to the bottom of this, where it says “Subscriptions”. (It’s in blue, so that tells you it is a link.) Press it. This will take you through to a screen where the top link – though it doesn’t necessarily look like a link – is your Apple ID. You want to press on the “iTunes and App Store” one: There’s your account at the top: press on that. (Here’s Apple’s page explaining how, but mine has nice pictures.)įirst, go to Settings. ![]() #FIREWIRE 410 DRIVER FOR MAC 10.13.3 HOW TO#So because it’s important to know how to find out whether you’re on a subscription, here’s how to find it in iOS. ![]() You think you won’t fall for it, but a lot of people do: the No.69 top grossing app gets $14.3m per year, and it’s a document scanner. They do this by intentionally confusing users with their app’s design and flow, by making promises of “free trials” that convert after only a matter of days, and other misleading tactics. Of course you’re thinking: I don’t do that! I’d never fall for it. There have been a number of articles recently with horror stories of unscrupulous developers who essentially con people into signing up for subscriptions to apps on the App Store these can rake in huge amounts of money. ![]()
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